Which games do you own but can't you actually run (as well as you'd like - at least!)

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Farcry 3. I have a much better machine than some people that are getting 60 fps because but since I have a shitty AMD vidya card I generally don't get to enjoy new releases on PC till some months later since NODRIVERS

Yea, AMD's drivers are sinking back into their old, lethargic and poorly maintained state aren't they?

They broke Torchlight 2 with 12.9 - 12.10 stayed broke and there's no mention of a fix in 12.11 (which is in Beta and I've not risked it).

TL2 is a fairly popular game - but no-one seems greatly concerned that it's pretty unplayable (unless you fancy a rollback to 12.8)

A 100% DRM bug, since the goddamned Starforce won't detect the disc required to run the game. I believed it was an issue of older version of Starforce, and Typhoon did patch the Starforce to newer version. I updated mine, rerun everything, but doing no good. I emailed Typhoon Games for the issue, they replied that I should input Disc 1 out of the 3 CDs. What the...... I am not a 3 year-old kid.

I will not buy another Typhoon distributed games until I can sort this out. Unfortunately it is one of the few Chinese publishers stably localizing Japanese games from time to time.

Battlefield 3 I can run it on Ultra 40 fps but I'm more comfortable with 60-70 on High. Furthermore FRAPS in the Screenshot Every Second mode makes it more choppy. Probably it's possible to do some overclocking but I never attempted it and not sure how to do it reliably. If anyone can point me to a reliable guide "ATI overclocking for dummies" - thanks. But probably I'll just buy NVIDIA GPU next.

I've got GTA4, but I get FPS drops all the time. That, and it feels like driving a truck on ice. Not sure how it is with my controller, just that its laggy as heck. I can run Black Mesa, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Bioshock all quite well on high settings, so I have no idea why GTA4 is running so terrible for me. Heck, I even lowered all of the graphics to see if I could get a boost, but no dice. I can only assume its poorly optimized or something.

Natural selection 2 needs a lot of work in getting its performance to manageable levels, I can run BF3 better on High than I can with NS2 on medium. I love the game, but they really need to sort that out, more than any other issue it'll be that which will limit how far the community can spread.

I may be lucky here, but I haven't struggled running anything for a while. I upgraded my GFX card about half a year ago, but everything else is about 3 years old, so I always assumed it was just that nothing was really pushing hardware while the current gen of consoles are holding on. That said, I've yet to play Planetside 2, which sounds like it might be a bit of struggle.